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Chapter 1379
Kuchu Khan has the iconic Tatar face, the wrinkles have been deeply etched into the skin by the years, and this battle has been fought for too long.

It was so long that people even forgot why the original war started, and Yermak, who had been fighting against him for so long, didn't even know that his opponent was an old man who couldn't hear or see.

The tribes on the Siberian grasslands rose up with the wars and disappeared with the wars.

Although the capital was taken away, he was still standing here, still the Great Khan of Siberia, and whoever came to fight with him, he would fight back with war until the end of his life.

Where did this war start?It began with the demise of the Kazan Khanate.

How did the Kazan Khanate fall?During the civil war, one of the contenders for the khan requested reinforcements from the Principality of Moscow, and Ivan IV's troops entered Kazan as a result, and lingered, when Moscow's puppet was overthrown, using this as an excuse to march into Kazan.

The whole war was almost one-sided. It was said that there was an army of 15 and a logistics supply line of 150 kilometers. The soldiers approached the city of Kazan in two months and surrounded the city with trenches. The mountain army besieged the city.

In another two months, following the advice of the English adviser in the army, tunnels were dug to bury black powder, the city wall was overturned, and then the Russian army swarmed into the fortified city, avoiding the embarrassment of the winter.

The shock that that war brought to Kuchu Khan was incomparable, but the sad thing is that he was on the east side of the Ural Mountains, and he had no helpers to learn from. The magical weapon.

If there is anything that the young Kuchu Khan can learn, it is that Tsarist Russia is an extremely dangerous external threat, and the heir to the Khan who wants to ask Ivan the Terrible for reinforcements must be killed first.

He did exactly that. The Turkic-born Jagdir Khan violated Genghis Khan’s iron law that no family should be called a Khan unless he was a golden family, and he recruited Ivan’s reinforcements. After a chaotic civil war, Kuchu Khan finally won. Killed Yagdir.

How long can people survive in the war of extinction on the grassland?The 20-year civil war has consumed two generations of people on the grassland. The young people have long wondered why the war started. They only know that offering furs to the vicious and cunning Cossacks may prevent the war.

Kuchukhan was unwilling to do so.

He declared war on Yagdir not only because of his Khan position, but also because he was a servant of his ancestors and could not command him from above.

But when Yagdir was killed, Kuchu Khan ascended the throne of the Great Khan and regained the country belonging to his ancestors. There was almost no trade-off between pros and cons. vassal relations, sending troops to attack the Tsarist Russian outposts on the border.

At that time, Kuchu Khan had clear eyes and ears, and it didn't matter whether the so-called Grand Duchy of Moscow or Tsarist Russia, no matter what they were, in Kuchu Khan's eyes, they were the slaves of his ancestors, the Russians.

The declaration of war was not because of national justice, but because of the honor of the Golden Family and the responsibility of the Great Khan, and it was also related to the dignity of Kuchu Khan's inner unwillingness to be enslaved.

Even if the servant of the ancestors becomes powerful, he can destroy his khanate and kill his body as much as possible, and he must never be made to surrender.

Anyone can choose to live in humiliation, and Kuchuhan has no choice but to fight to the end and fight with his life.

The people of the Siberian Khanate did not fail him.

On the slight hills of the increasingly cold Great Plains, Kuchu Khan did not ride a horse, but tried his best to straighten his back, holding a long scepter in both hands, stubbornly wearing a chain plate armor and a cone-topped iron helmet on his head. , and loudly announced his plan to the leaders who came from all over the place.

The strong juniors of the Jin family on both sides supported the elders, and carefully exerted force on Kuchu Khan's arm, making the sweat, who had long been unable to see things clearly, turn his face to the direction of the crowd.

After the Ming-Ha coalition army was injured and defended at the station in Shatai, there were only 880 people left, of which 480 were Kazakh cavalry, and the Ming army had a fully organized Thousand Household Department and some technical personnel for investigating intelligence.

At this moment, more than 170 elite coalition troops stationed on the river bank [-] miles southwest of Kuchu Khan's meeting place.

The envoy sent to participate in the alliance was a mid-level officer seconded from the Ningxia Western Expeditionary Army because he was familiar with the combat methods of the northern nomadic cavalry, and he was a guerrilla general.

He is a Mongolian named Qibai.

Qibai was an excellent mid-level officer in the Ming army. In his early years, he was the son of a small tribal chieftain under the command of the Mongolian minister Yingtaiji. Because he offended Taiji, his father and brother died in tribal disputes. He was the only one who led a few tribes to kowtow Guan please surrender to guard Zheng Yin.

Because of his own subordinates, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief, and then fought for the Ningxia border of the Ming Dynasty. In all previous battles, he has repeatedly made military exploits with his bravery, and he is also a good hand in recruiting and surrendering the Mongolian tribes.

In the Wanli year, Qi Bai was promoted to a guerrilla general, and he had hundreds of desperadoes who were not welcome on the Mongolian grasslands.

At this time, Qi Bai had already served Daming for 20 years, and he himself was already old, about fifty-seven, so he was a veteran, so he shouldn't have participated in this long-distance expedition.

It's just that he was unwilling to become an official after a few years of mere guerrilla warfare, and wanted to find a good life and a good way out for his son and many adopted sons, so he asked for his order to leave the customs.

I thought it would be fine to break the arm with the Yeerqiang Khanate, but I didn't expect that the group of generals in the Western Expedition was too luxurious. He, a guerrilla general, couldn't get on the stage, and he was out of the gate. He was just catching up with Qi Jiguang's secondment to know the situation of the captives. The character, volunteered to follow over.

He didn't bring any troops with him, but he only brought his adopted son's cronies, Kui Yun and Tu Wenxiu, from the Qi family army. The soldiers and horses were all under the command of Tong Deng, the general soldier of Gansu, and the eldest son Kuo Cheng'en was in command.

Kuchu Khan shouted hoarsely on the hillside to call on the tribal leaders to fight against the tsar's troops and retake the city of Iskar, which belonged to the Golden Family.

Kuchu Khan didn't take the content of what Kuchu Khan said seriously, and led his adoptive sons to listen with their arms folded and their faces slightly raised, with a blank expression on their faces.

His eyes focused impudently on Kuchu Khan's face behind the iron visor, looking into Kuchu Khan's eyes.

It was a pair of eyes with white nebula. This disease is terminally ill in Ming Dynasty.

The treatment method can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, which is called gold needle pulling out the barrier. After a period of time after treatment, the patient can regain his sight, but it is followed by severe hyperopia, which can keep his sight for several years, and eventually he will still be completely blind.

Bai Bai looked at these white eyes, and what he thought about in his mind was power.

What is the power to support this old man who is older than himself, and he is still an old blind man, who has been fighting against a country for 20 years?

He didn't understand that Baibai had never had such power.

So even if he didn't take Kuchuhan's plan seriously, he still raised his arms and opened his hands to speak in the alliance of the leaders of the Siberian Khanate.

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)